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The author, Chiara Cattaneo, emphasizes an irrefutable reality: from emotional distress you can heal. But his story goes beyond healing understood as mere reduction or absence of symptoms.
Stories are us. Finding ourselves in history, we figure out who we are and where we belong and how what we do fits with the actions of others. Within great diversity there is common ground. Mental health activists across the world can connect across time, place, and person through collecting, saving, and sharing stories.
The autonomic nervous system forms, among other things, the connection between your emotional system and your stress system. The polyvagal theory describes how the autonomic nervous system responds to the experience of safety and insecurity.
It’s a persistent belief that depression is caused by low serotonin levels. But it's not true, according to a major British study. Psychologist Markus Dencker and social worker Lasse Mattila wonder why it is so quiet about the study in the Swedish media.
We are the invisible people, the special ones that require individual attention and mutual aid groups. We live a reality few people see. Not even the public administration, which should respond to the interests of all citizens, sees us; investment in us has been decreasing in the area that concerns us (and worries us). We invisible people are silenced by our mental health diagnosis.